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August Strindberg (1849-1912) is best known outside Sweden as a dramatist, but he was also a prolific writer of novels, short stories, essays, journalism and poetry - as well as a notable artist and photographer. Although he spent many years abroad, Strindberg was born, grew up and died in Stockholm and The Red Room is perhaps the quintessential Stockholm novel. A satire of the rapidly changing society of the 1870s, it was Strindberg's first novel and marked his literary breakthrough: it offers, he said, 'a panorama of a society I don't love and which has never loved me'. It contains some of the great set-piece scenes in Swedish literature, a gallery of unforgettable caricatures in the spirit of Dickens, humour, pathos and satirical targets as apt now as they were then. The Red Room is often called Sweden's first modern novel, and it remains modern almost a century and a half later.Product Identifiers
PublisherNorvik Press
ISBN-139781909408517
eBay Product ID (ePID)9046673381
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Red Room
AuthorAugust Strindberg
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2019
Dimensions
Item Height210mm
Item Width148mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorAugust Strindberg
Series TitleB
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom